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  title info:
    title: Convention and the individual in medieval English romance
  name:
    name part: Brookes, Lucy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Medieval romances can be characterised by their formulaic motifs, predictable plots, and "stock" figures and character types. This book offers a fresh perspective on these conventions, arguing that authors used them, and the expectations they generate, as a form of shorthand to interiority. Understanding romance conventions in this way reveals that romance characters' complex and often contradictory inner lives are made available precisely through the genre's narrative structures, shapes, and norms. Drawing upon recent work in the History of Emotions and Affect Theory, the author explores character and subjectivity in a variety of English romance texts from 1100 to 1500 - such as Amis and Amiloun, Le Bone Florence of Rome, The Squire of Low Degree, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte Darthur. Through new readings of these texts, the book demonstrates the contribution made by romance to the growing significance of the individual in fiction after the twelfth century by paying particular attention to the ways in which convention, expectation, and genre intersect with character-formation and the representation of identity"--
  table of contents: Introduction -- Romance Telling -- Romance Showing -- Plotting Romance -- Romance Characters -- The Subject of Malory -- Conclusion.
  note: Lucy Brookes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Romances, English
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: Middle English, 1100-1500
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Self in literature
  subject:
    topic: Roman courtois anglais
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Littérature anglaise
    temporal: 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais)
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature
  classification: PR149.R65 B76 2025
  classification: 820.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Convention and the Individual in Medieval English Romance
    name:
      name part: Brookes, Lucy.
    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, 2025
    identifier: (OCoLC)1500727538
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in medieval romance
  identifier: 9781843846895
  identifier: 1843846896
  identifier: 1805435736
  identifier: 9781805435730
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240907
    record change date: 20250802185314.4
    record identifier: in00005654403
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng